What first world problem did you have today?

[lxskllr]

Raking leaves. Fuck i hate fall.

No one told you to rake leaves. If they weren't supposed to be there, they wouldn't have fallen. I've raked leaves at my place exactly twice, and that was only to make leaf piles for my daughter to jump in.

 

[pyonir]

No one told you to rake leaves. If they weren't supposed to be there, they wouldn't have fallen. I've raked leaves at my place exactly twice, and that was only to make leaf piles for my daughter to jump in.

It's not in my yard...my parents are retired and my mom is obsessive about leaves. It's either I have to do it or she's out there doing it by herself. If it were my yard, they'd stay where they fall.

 

[lxskllr]

Ah yes, the old people conundrum. Where you end up doing ridiculous shit cause that's "what needs to be done" :^D

 

[tynopik]

It's not in my yard...my parents are retired and my mom is obsessive about leaves. It's either I have to do it or she's out there doing it by herself.

hire the neighborhood kid to do it

 

[Red Squirrel]

Raking leaves. Fuck i hate fall.

Ugh I need to do that too. It's not raking that's the problem, it's bagging them. So many freaking bags and then I'm stuck with that most of the winter as I can only fit so much at a time in the garbage bins. My city is ridiculous when it comes to bylaws so it's probably illegal to dump them in the bush and they charge to use the dump now.

It's tempting to just spread them around the yard and mow them lol. They're all wet though so it won't really work that great. I can maybe wait till it gets cold enough so they freeze.

 

[pyonir]

hire the neighborhood kid to do it

They live in a rural area...and know like one of their neighbors who is also retired and lives alone. lol. You'd think one of the dozens of grandkids (or great grandkids) would do it, but they are all selfish as fuck.

 

[Chaotic42]

Why rake the leaves? I've never lived anywhere that I needed to do this, but they're supposed to be on the ground near the tree. My FWP is that apparently Miss Noisy next door is fighting with someone and now the slow jams have started to soothe her pain. I need to get a job somewhere I want to live so I can buy a house.

 

[Imp]

It's not in my yard...my parents are retired and my mom is obsessive about leaves. It's either I have to do it or she's out there doing it by herself. If it were my yard, they'd stay where they fall.

I'm in the no rake and barely cut grass camp. People around me are not. I think long, green grass looks great. Every time it gets mowed, it just reveals the dry, yellow bottom and patches of dirt.

Edit: Updating my Windows... Puzzled as to why MS Office always has so many security updates. Guessing it's all the online functionality and shit causing the problems?

 

[Spydermag68]

Second night in a row that I have to listen to the "Mommy" song.

 

[Imp]

It wants to come out.

Guess who had sushi today...

 

[Ns1]

Ah, summarizes most of what I loved and hated about working construction.

And Americans should be FWP-ing about AT&T buying up Time Warner. Didn't they just buy up Direct TV? Isn't that like... a monopoly.

Time Warner gets rid of TWC only to be bought by ATT.

 

[Mixolydian]

Sick with a cold or something.

Ugh I need to do that too. It's not raking that's the problem, it's bagging them. So many freaking bags and then I'm stuck with that most of the winter as I can only fit so much at a time in the garbage bins. My city is ridiculous when it comes to bylaws so it's probably illegal to dump them in the bush and they charge to use the dump now.

It's tempting to just spread them around the yard and mow them lol. They're all wet though so it won't really work that great. I can maybe wait till it gets cold enough so they freeze.

At least you're allowed to put leaves in the garbage.

 

[Red Squirrel]

At least you're allowed to put leaves in the garbage.

Technically I don't even think we're allowed. But they have an automated system now with an arm on the garbage truck, so it's harder to enforce. I FILLED it with dandelions once, the bin was probably like 200 lbs, they actually picked it up, I was really surprised.

I'm actually surprised garbage truck fires don't happen very often. I wonder how many people throw out lithium ion batteries or other stuff of that nature without even thinking.

 

[Red Squirrel]

FWP for today, I had to scrape ice off the car today. I used the auto start but I had forgot to put the heat on full blast so it did not melt.

 

[Chaotic42]

FWP for today, I had to scrape ice off the car today. I used the auto start but I had forgot to put the heat on full blast so it did not melt.

It's going to be 78F (25.5C) here today.

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol that's a hot summer day for here. In fact it's been warm for this time of year. It's mostly above freezing, just the nights that dip below. It's 2C now. Actually record high for this day is 23C in 1963. Not bad.

 

[shortylickens]

We use a little leaf blower to clean up the yard. its easier than raking.

 

[Imp]

Remembering from a short while ago... Looking up recalled products on Canada's government recall database, like every search term I tried resulted in a dozen hits for boner pills.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Spend a solid half hour trying to debug an it-was-working-honest script after but-they-were-really-only-minor changes, only to find that I added the column to the wrong dang-blasted mysql table.

badluckbrian.jpg

 

[lxskllr]

Fell off the roof of the office today. Was cleaning the gutters, and had one left to do. It was under a pine tree, and there was a shitton of needles on the roof. I eased down, and started to kick needles off the roof. I got a little too far down, and lost traction on the needles. I stabilized myself, decided it was a bad idea, and tried getting back up on the roof. That got me sliding again, and I couldn't recover. It was slow enough that I had a second to decide which deadish tree branch would hold 220#, and grabbed it as I went over the edge. I picked a good one. I ended up dangling over a pile of junk, let go, and dropped more or less safely on the ground.

The lip of the roof was only eight or nine feet off the ground, but I scraped myself up pretty good. Worst part is I thought the whole thing was a bad idea, but went anyway. I knew the needles would be a roof full of needle bearings, but ignored my better judgment :^S

 

[Imp]

Craigslist again. Got two potential buyers in a row asking me to mail my shit to them. One even said he wasn't a scammer -- if he says so, must be true. Second guy offered a bit extra but...

Post office shipping calculator showed that cost of shipping would be $12, then I'd need to blow $2+ on packaging. Then add Paypal fees of $1 or $2. Then add in the risk of the buyer being a bitch and saying he/she never received it or that it's busted. No, thank you?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I opened Firefox from a windows VM and forgot how freaking ugly Firefox looks in Windows, who the hell decided it was smart to shove the menu in the title bar and then make the title bar double size and shove the tabs in it too? And with all that remove the title lol. The GUI looks like it was made by a 2 year old with a brain tumor. I tried to install Classic Theme restorer but since FF updates to a major version every freaking week they did not recode the addon for that version yet.

 

[Charmonium]

Fell off the roof of the office today. Was cleaning the gutters, and had one left to do. It was under a pine tree, and there was a shitton of needles on the roof. I eased down, and started to kick needles off the roof. I got a little too far down, and lost traction on the needles. I stabilized myself, decided it was a bad idea, and tried getting back up on the roof. That got me sliding again, and I couldn't recover. It was slow enough that I had a second to decide which deadish tree branch would hold 220#, and grabbed it as I went over the edge. I picked a good one. I ended up dangling over a pile of junk, let go, and dropped more or less safely on the ground.

The lip of the roof was only eight or nine feet off the ground, but I scraped myself up pretty good. Worst part is I thought the whole thing was a bad idea, but went anyway. I knew the needles would be a roof full of needle bearings, but ignored my better judgment :^S

glad you're ok but next time wear a harness or something. You can then secure yourself with a rope and in the worst case have someone anchor you.

 

[Imp]

My office chair is so old/crappy that the foam has been compressed enough for the screws/hardware on the bottom to poke me in the ass -- why the hell would there be nothing between the screws and the foam. I could buy a cushion to throw on top but... something?

 

[lxskllr]

glad you're ok but next time wear a harness or something. You can then secure yourself with a rope and in the worst case have someone anchor you.

What I need is a stepladder, and get it from the ground, but it's a pita hunting stuff down around the farm, and moving it.